Samsung updates both Now and RSS Times for Windows Phone

Samsung continues to support its Windows Phones with OEM app updates. Today we're looking at two apps from the Samsung Zone that have been recently updated. Both Now and RSS Times have been bumped to new versions (3.7.0.2 and 2.0.2) with the former removing top tweets and adding in a currency converter. We're not entirely sure what's new in its RSS reader.

Let us know in the comments if you notice anything we've missed. It's good to see the company pushing out more releases. You can download Now and RSS Times from the Samsung Zone on the Windows Phone Store. Thanks, chataddicted, for the tip!

The RSS Times app is now Fullscreen on 720p and higher resolution devices and the icon has been changed. No more black bar at the top of the app which is my biggest complaint with a lot of apps that are hard coded for 480x800 resolution.

The version number is 2.0.1 for RSS Times not 2.0.2 as stated in the article

Lighter, 4.8 inch display, 2'300mah removable battery, microSD slot, different styling. For me it is better, but it depends on your needs. The camera on the Ativ S is no match for the 8X or 920. The Ativ S is also less tough. But it has a physical home button, which is real nice. Also less expensive off contract, about 25% less here in Europe than a 920.

I agree this phone looks really nice and imo nicer than the gs3 and 4. I really hope Samsung start to push wp and windows 8 with there next line of devices as it would be nice to see Samsung and htc try and go up against Nokia in the wp space but for me the Lumia 920 is still the phone to beat on the market at the moment but the htc one comes close.

Tell me, where was Nokia when Windows Phone was first released. I'll tell you where Nokia was, fast becoming irrelevant by flogging Symbian handsets and that dead horse called Meego, while slating Windows Phone. If it wasn't for Microsoft, Nokia would be as dead as Meego by now. If it wasn't for the likes of HTC and Samsung, yes Samsung, you wouldn't have a Windows Phone.

When did Nokia slate windows phone? And did they have to be there from the start to be recognized as the best WP OEM? How about LG who were there from the start, where are they now? SE who HP who bailed without even making a device? And regardless of their late entry, they have done more for WP since joining in Feb 2011 than both HTC and Samsung combined in all the years they have been making mobile devices with Microsoft's mobile platforms. Your attempt to portray Nokia's later entry as a WP OEM as a negative against them is misguided and totally inaccurate. Fact is without Nokia WP would not exist today, period.

Because, OEMs aren't able to do what they want with the WP OS, well Nokia kind of gets its way, but usually there is no personal customization for OEMs.. So, this is a way for Samsung to differentiate itself from the others... I don't see any harm in that.

makes sense. But Now is from Google (isn't it ?), I dont know if Google is the actual publisher on Samsung Zone or if it's Samsung itself, but Now is a product of Google. At one hand Google says that they will not make any apps for windows phones and on the other hand Samsung Zone makes Now available on its windows phones. I hate when these kind of tactics are played to weed out competition. Now is available on iOS, then why not all windows phones? Fuck you Google and Samsung (google's little bitch)

The day I wrote the comment. The only thing that works correctly is the weather, every other function is broken in some way. Stocks don't function at all, News Links just take you to Yahoo lists. This app hasn't worked properly since the update that changed News to Yahoo, a long long time ago!

Samsung now is a very usefu app i ever found in market place. Basically its a 4in one app. 1st ly the weather section is superb nd far better than other weather apps present in market place. Weather not only update frequently but also it support gps to find ur current location nd show ur locations temp. The double wide live tile updates very frequently also. 2ndly if u pin the news sections in ur home screen u can see all important national and international news from yahoo news. Nd also u can comment or share it in ur social network. For best supprot u have to activate most view section as ur live tile news update. 3rd ly the stock index and products. This is very ussful for business people.and lastly in their latest update samsung add currency converter. I thing which is very very useful than previously available top tweet features. So Now is an amazing app. Thank u samsung for supporting wp.. \m/

I own a Lumia 800 and I love Nokia and the Lumia line. Still, I recommended my girlfriend the ATIV S. Why? Because in price / performance it's unbeatable where I live in the moment. Here in Austria you can get it for as low as 260€ (!) contract free, there is no Lumia that can beat that considering that it got high-end specs for the most part.

Must admit sometimes wish I held out for the s4, only phone that can give 920 run for the money in my opinion. I just dislike Sammy to much. Nokia is so much better. Samsung isn't trying to win customers it already has them

Out of the box :-) have u guys faced this problem: playing game, accidentally the search or back button pressed. I think there should be option to disable these buttons while playing or whenever we want.